Merry Christmas Everyone!!!!!!!!

Well, my Christmas gift to myself was a 2005 Pontiac Grand Am. It's so hot! I love it to death.  Oh yes, the duck tape mobile is no more.

Things around here are pretty much same old/same old. I just got back from Texas, visiting friends. Apparantly I'm more attractive to guys in Texas than I am in PA, haha. I guess I might have to move if I ever want to have a romantic life, lol!

Work is awesome. I love my job. I love that I got to play a part in helping kids have a Christmas this year. Part of my job as Mental Health Case Manager is to help provide for every day needs so I got to round up christmas presents and christmas dinners and deliver them to people. Christmas isn't really a big deal for me anymore but helping others makes it feel like a Holiday.

I just finished my first year of Grad School!!!! 1 down, and 2 more to go. I won't be graduating until 2008 because of the way that classes are offered in my school, grrr. My "initial review" is coming up. Basically I sit in a room with my professors and some advisors and they tell me if I should be a therapist or not.  Kind of intimidating....can't wait to get it over with.

Well, that's my update for now. I miss you guys!

Erin

I am most definitely the worst Xangan on the planet

It has been about 4 months since my last post.  Wow, I never thought I could be this neglectful.  Actually, I had attempted to post a time or two but Xanga ate my post and now who knows where it is.

So...where to start...well, I got a new job about 3 months ago.  Im working as a Children's Intensive Case Manager for kids ages 7-17 who have severe mental illness. It's a challenging job but I do enjoy it most days (today is not one of those days). 

I've also completed two semesters of grad school and have just begun my third (The first two were spring and summer).  I'm loving every minute of school (except of course the work).

As for my personal life, well, things have been pretty difficult lately.  About 2 months ago, my best friend's sister died of a drug overdose.  If that weren't bad enough my sister (who has been in and out of mental hospitals 9 times now in 2 years) developed a new crack habit.  She's now in rehab which I think will be pretty good for her.  It's scary though because she overdosed on it twice.

I've been on a few dates with guys who didn't work out for one reason or another. I'm also still living with my roommate.  I feel so out of touch with you all and I'm sorry for that. After I graduated from college It became increasingly more difficult to keep up with an online journal.

I am going to vow to do better this time (as usual).  I really do value some of the friendships that I made here and want to stay in touch.  

Love N' Hugs~

Erin

I apologize to all of you!!!! I forgot to "activate" my list so nobody could see the post!!!! Ahhhh!!!!  Its active now....

Things have been good...I finished my first semester of grad school and it's been wonderful.  I'm in the process of looking for a new job.  I had suspended my job search for a little while but have just last week made the decision to leave my company. I want to do something meaningful.

I have a protected post up with more detail.  For now, I only want to allow certain people to read it.  If you're not on the list, Im sorry :-/  I'll try to post something later that I feel comfortable sharing with everyone.

For now, I'm gonna go read some sites!

I haven't written in almost a month and I"m sorry.  Things have been kind of stressful yesterday. I ended up being called for a second interview for one of the jobs and being offered the job for another.  I turned both down.  They didn't offer enough in the way of salary.

Other than that, I've just been busy with school and work.  I would like to post more but I've been keeping things inside lately.

I promise something more in depth is coming and I do miss you all...